Books, Manuscripts and Drawings Relating to Tobacco from the Collection of George Arents: On Exhibition at Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina, April 28th to June 2nd 1941Duke University Library, 1941 - 60 pages |
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... called Tobacco . " The " prophecy " was the work of a devout Moslem who opposed the use of tobacco . The plant was unknown in the Levant or Asia before its introduction at the end of the six- teenth century by Portuguese , Dutch , and ...
... called Tobacco . " The " prophecy " was the work of a devout Moslem who opposed the use of tobacco . The plant was unknown in the Levant or Asia before its introduction at the end of the six- teenth century by Portuguese , Dutch , and ...
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... by the first manufacturer in Italy of cigars ( then called bastoni di tabacco : " tobacco sticks " ) . He offers free seeds to planters and prizes for the best tobacco produced . QUIXOGA , AGUSTIN DE . Manuscript , sobre la cultura [ 14 ]
... by the first manufacturer in Italy of cigars ( then called bastoni di tabacco : " tobacco sticks " ) . He offers free seeds to planters and prizes for the best tobacco produced . QUIXOGA , AGUSTIN DE . Manuscript , sobre la cultura [ 14 ]
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... called " perfuming , " etc. , was practised partly to conceal the odor of the plant in medici- nal concoctions . The translator of this work was opposed to the use of tobacco medicinally and advocated instead certain remedial herbs . He ...
... called " perfuming , " etc. , was practised partly to conceal the odor of the plant in medici- nal concoctions . The translator of this work was opposed to the use of tobacco medicinally and advocated instead certain remedial herbs . He ...
Contents
Ceremonials Rituals and Mythology | 3 |
Aboriginal and Commercial Cultivation | 9 |
Therapeutics | 15 |
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ailments American tobacco Arents library Autograph letter bacco BRATHWAIT Carolina CARVER Catalogue Catherine de Medici CHARLES chiefly cigar cohoba collection contains the earliest Counterblaste to Tobacco cultivation of tobacco curing custom cut shown decree dissertation Dutch earliest known illustration earliest published edition English engraving famous French monopolists George Arents ginia GROUP Henbane Indian Indies indulged inhaling JAMES Jefferson JOHN John Durkin king of England L'OBEL LiƩbault's lished London meerschaum Mexico Monardes natives nicotian nicotian powder Nicotiana rustica Nicotiana Tabacum numerous references ordinance panacea Paris Persia physician pipe planters plate shown illustrates poems on tobacco Pope Alexander VII popular praise proclamation prohibited Queen references to tobacco relating to tobacco ROBERT rustica sell tobacco smoaking smoking snuff snuffing social subject of tobacco tabaco Tabacologia THEVET tobacco in Virginia tobacco monopoly tobacco plant tobacco ritual tobacco smoke tract translation treatise value of tobacco Virginia water color WILLIAM